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Guild Wars 2 - Spring 2014 Feature Update (April 15th)
- Thread starter Jira
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I've heard that transfers are free if you have no chars? If that's true that's probably better for me as to be honest I never really got that far on EU and don't mind starting afresh anyway. I haven't really played since launch.
Yes, if you delete all your characters you can transfer for free. Move any items you want to save to your bank and it'll be there when you create a new character. You'll only lose access to anything soulbound.
Jest Chillin
Member
Don't question my love of dyes.
Also, this is just a feature update. Sometime in the summer we'll get the start of the Living World Season 2, which will be a content update. And that will renew the cycle of new content every two weeks, which is pretty awesome.
Also if you haven't been in the game for a while, there's been a ton of other quality of life updates too.
Okay, I'm back.Dye's are now account-bound.
Well, it is called a feature update.
because its what i've wanted since day 1, its amazing when you have a lot (a lot) of alts (like really, so many) and dyes are fun to collect!
Haha wow, you guys did a great job with the comic.
As always, feel free to join us on in GAFGuild. We're on Stormbluff Isle (but you can play with us easily from any NA server) and do weekly guild missions and lotteries, scheduled events throughout the world, plenty of dungeon runs, world bosses, jumping puzzles and other shenanigans. We've even got a nice core of people running around WvW to fight for SBI these days. We don't require anything of our members in terms of attendance, activity, skill level, or playstyle (just don't be a jerk).
I hadn't seen it linked yet, but for anyone interested, here's a page of all the actual content stuff the game has seen since launch (to give you an idea of what will be around the corner when the LS season starts back up): https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/
As always, feel free to join us on in GAFGuild. We're on Stormbluff Isle (but you can play with us easily from any NA server) and do weekly guild missions and lotteries, scheduled events throughout the world, plenty of dungeon runs, world bosses, jumping puzzles and other shenanigans. We've even got a nice core of people running around WvW to fight for SBI these days. We don't require anything of our members in terms of attendance, activity, skill level, or playstyle (just don't be a jerk).
I hadn't seen it linked yet, but for anyone interested, here's a page of all the actual content stuff the game has seen since launch (to give you an idea of what will be around the corner when the LS season starts back up): https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/
Heyyy good points.KiteGr said:
Paracelsus
Member
I have friends who insist on telling me this whole thing does little to bring new players and does nothing but pissing off veterans. I have no way to tell though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721PbmPYmEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721PbmPYmEg
I don't know if they have plans for official controller support but our solution is pretty great.
What do you mean by this whole thing, are you talking about the video or is that an unrelated link?
LumpOfCole
Member
I really think that Anet should've saved the sale for April 15th, when the 1-15 maps are working with Megaserver to provide a huge-population experience.
But maybe the sale will last that long too!
But maybe the sale will last that long too!
ArtistDude88
Member
Yay! I like the mega server thing.
Felt like I was playing a large SP game that had a chat box most of the time when I played recently...
*No Friends McGee
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PS: Nice comic, OP
Felt like I was playing a large SP game that had a chat box most of the time when I played recently...
*No Friends McGee
*PS: Nice comic, OP
Yeah, but we've had feature and content updates nearly every two weeks. This is just one really big one.
Everyone in the guild is pretty excited about the changes. Sure, there's some stuff we don't know how it will shake out, but there's really nothing in here that should piss off veterans. Almost all of these changes have come out of fan-feedback.
People are just afraid because it's something new and not what they're used to. We've been through this song and dance before. People freak out, but then once they see it in action and realize that the new feature opens up other possibilities, they get used to it and then start complaining about something else. This is how all MMO's and other constantly updated games work.
It goes up until the 13th, weirdly, but somebody must have a reasoning there..
That's cause it's not a content update. It's an update solely focused on adding or modifying game systems. We've had 29 content updates since launch with features sprinkled within. The way things work now are Content for a few releases, then Features, then back to content and so on. The list of stuff they've added since launch, both permanent and temporary, is large to say the least.
Yeah, we didn't want to overload it too much. The idea for presenting it as a comic was to keep it light instead of an info-dump, and give room for some snark and guild personality to show through (one GAFer was banned for "proselytizing" in a gaming side thread, for example).
We knew some things needed larger explanations (Megaservers, PVP changes), while some things we could tuck into each other (account-wide dyes are in with wardrobe). We made a big list of all the features and whittled it down to the big ones.
Everything on your list could and rightfully should be in there, but in the interest of keeping it a little less wall-o-text-y we skimmed on the lighter features. I originally had a panel where the human was knocked out by a wall of text criting for 9999 damage though. Maybe I'll stick it back in and toss in the rest of your list. We mostly just wanted to get it up last night.
Technically, they were there at Day -100 and change. Dyes were account-wide in the BWE, but instead of just clicking unidentified dyes to identify them, you found "Colorful Dye Seeds" that you then had to take to an NPC so they'd grow them. The whole process took 24 hours per dye, unless you bought Magic Plant Food from the gem store.
They cut the cash-shop option out really quick, but obviously there was room somewhere between the two. It's unfortunate it took a year and a half, but it's almost here.
They seem content to stick with the professions they have now, but they've said nothing is off to table for future Feature Updates. We're more likely to see the existing professions get new weapon choices first, then new weapon types overall (which, because of the way weapons work, would be like adding a new playstyle to them), then probably new classes last.
As for Mesmers, one of their new Grandmaster traits is generating a lot of buzz because it specifically has shades of the GW1-style mesmer; "Power Block: Interrupted skills now have a cooldown of 10s (default is only ~4s)."
Get new friends
The video you linked makes the same mistake that plexcide does above; this is a feature update, meant to give players a lots of new mechanics, quality-of-life improvements and balance changes. It has never been advertised as a content patch, that's always been part of the Living Story. Someone who plays as much as Nike knows this, he's just dragging out the old "rawr, no end game" argument for... whatever reason compels people to do that. When he starts talking about "Endgame", "Speed Clear Records", etc. I start to feel a tad queasy. I also disagree with his statement that the feature patch doesn't add any replayability; it absolutely does, just not the kind he wants. For example, traveling all over the game looking for new skins to add to the wardrobe is going to add a shitload of hours to the game for a lot of people.
Death and Taxes is just waaaaaaaay too serious for this game's open-ended playstyle, I would take anything they have to say about Guild Wars 2's design with a bucket of salt. I mean, let's be completely fair and honest; Guild Wars 2 is a pretty laid-back, casual MMO, and there's nothing necessarily wrong with that. But it's never going to be the kind of game those kind of players want, and that's a good thing, because there's already too many of them out there now (and more coming soon). GW2 is different, and this video strikes me as the proverbial square peg bitching that the round hole should just change already.
Ends April 13th. Doesn't make much sense to me either, but if people want to pick it up now while the iron is eating up, that's the lowest damn price I've ever seen it.
$25 is fucking ludicrous, honestly. If you have the tiniest interest in this game, the extent to which you'd have to hate everything about it to not find twenty-five dollars' worth of value within is quite extreme. I've (*checks*) played over 3000 hours at this point... oh wow
KiteGr
Member
I always wanted to enter the gaf guild, but unfortunatly i play on Aurora Glade (EU) and now I already have a guild with pals.
Once the mega servers get implimented on the rest of the world, being on a deferent server wont be a problem.
However now I have good friends in Dragon Seasson (current guild) and i obviously dont want to leave them.
Do you people mind if gaf is my secondary guild?
You can be in 5 guilds at once. Post your account.#### here and we'll throw you an invite.
Sir Garbageman
Member
Awesome comic and while I haven't played in months I can confirm that GW2 GAF is officially the best.
Need to hop back in when the patch roles out, sounds great.
Need to hop back in when the patch roles out, sounds great.
Murder. She Wrote
Member
How many gigs is GW2 now? Might have to redownload it.
He's in EU. He won't be able to play with us, including after the megaserver, unless he wants to transfer.
Roughly 16gb install so ~6-8GB download?
He's in EU. He won't be able to play with us, including after the megaserver, unless he wants to transfer.
Ah, didn't know that.
Damn son. I still have a level 60 Ascalonian Catacombs chestguard (an item which no longer exists in-game) from all those early runs with you and Achtius...
It has been a while.....I rememeber running the Catacombs like crazy back then...
dreamstation
Member
Your WvW rank and ability points will also be account wide!
I assume you haven't paid any attention to the game in some time and are unaware of the sheer volume of things added since launch? No one got fired or left, these decisions were all made due to a collaborative development initiative (CDI) between the playerbase and the devs. The same team who made the original game all made these decisions. This is just what happens when a development team actually plays their game and listens to what their community wants.
01DragonFly
Member
lol at the comic. Love the new account changes . Now I just need to open all those saved pvp chest *.* there are so many awesome skins( wow I didn't know you could also get Luck from salvaging pvp items).
Nemesis121
Member
More players=better, plus so many players are level 80 most of the zones are dead the Megaserver should change that..
LumpOfCole
Member
Only about 1/3 of a Titanfall install.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Can't wait for it.
Also there's a disturbing lack of charr.
Also there's a disturbing lack of charr.
crazepharmacist
Member
I can even meet them halfway, maybe there's something they think is stupid, but offensive? Maybe if somebody has a problem with gay relationships, but that's a fairly recent development and handled exceptionally well.
It's a real head-scratcher, that's for sure.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Free respec and repair is nice.
I need to get back into but every time I login I get a bunch of rewards and no inventory space to put them in. :lol
I need to get back into but every time I login I get a bunch of rewards and no inventory space to put them in. :lol
Is it a pop-up menu? If it's been a while, you may have missed the change to Account-wide Magic Find and it's trying to get you to pick a new stat set for your old Magic Find gear.
If not, Magic Find may be the solution anyways; salvage your greens and blues to get Essences of Luck, which you use to boost your magic find stat.
KiteGr
Member
Sadly, people who left after launch have probably missed a lot of changes in the game.
Fractals and ascended gear for example...
Yep. Guild Wars 2 threads tend to accumulate a lot of "I got to 80 the first week and quit cuz I was bored" comments, and it's obvious they've never bothered to come back since they whole Living Story thing started. Whether the writing was bad or good is irrelevant; it was something new and different every two weeks, and that's anything but boring.
Oh, by the way, we updated the comic last night to include more stuff on your list and slip in both a Final Fantasy reference AND a TLDR jab.
Maybe orbs really got under his or her skin at launch.
As someone who played the game for about a month or two after release and then stopped playing again until March when the LS began, it definitely is a different game. And even then, I don't think I joined GAF guild until around May which made an even bigger difference from the guild I was in that rarely had more than 3 people online at a time. People may still complain that this game is nothing more than farming for cosmetics but I login and rarely do the same thing week in and week out.
Honestly, the break was good for me because I came into GW2 wanting a direct sequel to GW1 which this game is not.
Kos Luftar
Member
Retro or Jira should post the comic on Reddit and you will be swimming in karma.
shysaursoft
Member
Today is the day. Now to patiently wait for the patch to drop. In the meantime, enjoy some screenshots of the lovely environments in the game:
Also:
Hour-long MMORPG.com interview about the Feature Pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=semhQxLNHoU
Bog Otter's interview from PAX East about the Feature Pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wccx3QKbLkk&feature=youtu.be
Also:
Hour-long MMORPG.com interview about the Feature Pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=semhQxLNHoU
Bog Otter's interview from PAX East about the Feature Pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wccx3QKbLkk&feature=youtu.be
Kos Luftar
Member
It's actually the PACK day. Can't wait.
Coriolanus
Banned
SweetFx?